Sentences with phrase «sacrificial death»

That this self - sacrificial death of Jesus demanded an explanation is obvious.

It is Jesus Christ in his incarnation and sacrificial death who is he final model and motivation for servanthood.

The expiation of sin achieved by Jesus» priestly sacrificial death on the cross is brought to fulfilment in the Eucharist of which Jesus is the heavenly high priest.

And to offer oneself, if necessary, unto sacrificial death is already to receive back one's body from beyond the grave.

Instead, God is to be found in the self - sacrificial death of a lamb, who pours out His blood for others, so that death and destruction, when it comes, passes over the house and can not touch those who live within.

Therefore God's justice has been manifested apart from the Law through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ (3:21 - 22)-- through his obedient, self - sacrificial death on the cross.

Most people of the Arminian persuadion believe th Bible says our names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life when we repent of our sins & accept Jesus» sacrificial death as our salvation.

And under the New Covenant made possible by Jesus sacrificial death, the old sacrificial system of offering innocent unwilling animals to atone for sin was also done away with.

Nearly all Christians know that the blood of the lamb is later used to symbolize the sacrificial death of Jesus on the cross for us.

And also we trust and believe that His sacrificial death is what gives us eternal life.

He came into the world and died a sacrificial death on the cross so that those who believe in Him would be saved (John 3:16).

So before we can talk about what exactly Jesus fulfilled through his sacrificial death on the cross, we must understand what the sacrificial system was for.

But Jesus» sacrificial death has given value to all suffering if it is accepted and offered in union with Him out of love for the Father, sincere sorrow for sins - our own and those of the whole world - and charity towards those who have caused it.

The greatest love that can be demonstrated for another requires that the agent of love die a sacrificial death.

Rather than a sacrificial death, or atonement, that frees believers from sin, the destruction of Jesus's body in the Gospel of Judas and other Gnostic texts frees his divine soul to rejoin God.

But I am a «slave» of His love as He «bought» me with His sacrificial death by paying the price for the redemption of my soul.

Secondly, as I have mentioned, Cahill takes seriously the witness of the whole of the New Testament and thus avoids the myopia of those who wish to see the significance of Jesus exclusively in his teaching and who bypass the challenge of his sacrificial death and his continuing presence among us.

And nowhere in Scripture can we behold the reality of Jesus» sacrificial death and the anguish of His separation from His Father more clearly and penetratingly than in His suffering on the cross because of sin.

By his sacrificial death on the Cross, Jesus Christ enables us, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to share in the holiness that he embodies and accomplishes for us.

Instead, Jesus came to inaugurate a new bloodline of relatives, a family connected by the means of His sacrificial death and life - restoring resurrection on our behalf.

Our God, Jehovah, God of Abraham: The New Testaments teaches that «eternal life» is a «gift» from God, made available to sinners by the sacrificial death of His Only Begotten Son on the Cross.

The Good News Bible renders the meaning as: «God offered him, so that by his sacrificial death he should become the means by which people's sins are forgiven through their faith in him.»

who came up with the concepts of virgin birth, sacrificial death, making man god?

However, the formal circumstances of the sacrificial death are not enough to make a purely one - way gift possible.

It's because of the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus.

Therefore, having earned a reward by his sacrificial death, we can avail ourselves of the eternal salvation he has merited.

Historian David Bebbington suggests a respected paradigm for those who identify as an evangelical: a transformed life through following Jesus, faith demonstrated through missionary and social reform efforts, a regard for the Bible as ultimate authority, and a central focus on the sacrificial death of Jesus.

Jesus» perfect life and sacrificial death was the greatest good ever done.

But our use of the words «sacrificial death» brings before us a further aspect of the action.

So for the early Christians the eucharistic action was not simply a mental recollection of Christ and especially of his sacrificial death; it was God's bringing the life of Christ and his sacrificial death into the present experience of the Christians who celebrated the sacrament.

That Love, humanly expressed to the point of sacrificial death, was validated and confirmed, for Christian faith, in the resurrection of embodied Love from death and hatred, evil and deception.

It's a semi-prophetic, selfless act that ends up requiring one character's sacrificial death.

He can not be opposed to mentioning Christ's sacrificial death, for he plainly refers to it in Acts 20:28.

Hitchens regarded it as an act of consummate political cynicism, a sacrificial death to propel the ambitious Clinton to the White House.

One need not deny the value of martyrdom in certain instances, or the selflessness of sacrificial death that is sometimes involved in trying to live a life of love, or even at times of pacifism (as a strategy, without believing in it as an absolute principle).